BBC newsreader Jane Hill is to 'marry' a woman cameraman

Jane Hill, the BBC newsreader, has accepted a 'marriage' proposal from her
girlfriend, Sara, a television cameraman.

Jane Hill and her partner Sara Photo: Mark Weeks

Tim Walker. Edited by Richard Eden

7:28AM GMT 16 Nov 2011

Having “outed” herself as homosexual in the BBC’s staff magazine, Jane Hill has now accepted a “marriage” proposal.

The newsreader is to enter into a civil partnership with her girlfriend, Sara, a television cameraman.

“Sara and I are getting hitched,” says Hill, who once courted Chris Hollins, the Strictly Come Dancing winner. “Still a bit shocked, I think, and hungover.”

The couple already live together in a fashionable area of north London with their border collie, Mavis. Described by one critic as being “severe but sexy”, Hill, 41, has said: “It is ridiculously incestuous to go out with people in the same line of work, but they understand what comes with the job.”

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